As a follow up to my previous post on an SWFAddress helper class that uses AS3Signals instead of events, I created a demo application that combines SWFAddress, AS3Signals, and RobotLegs.  I used this structure on an app I currently built successfully and would use it again.  Comments and suggestions are encouraged.

The key pieces to this application are: SWFAddress helper class that uses AS3Signals, the application model, the view state model, a command to pass the application model parameters to SWFAddress, and a command to process SWFAddress changes and update the application model.

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Recently I’ve had to do a bit of integration with Twitter on a site I was working on.  In order to allow people to easily post links to Twitter, I created specially formed URL’s to pass a message and link to Twitter.

Making the URL is simple, it looks something like this:

http://www.twitter.com/home?status=Your+Message+http://mylink.com

However, if you add an Ampersand (&) to the message it breaks the URL, like so:

http://www.twitter.com/home?status=Your+Message+&+something+http://mylink.com

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